Community Care of the Elderly in Northern Ireland and Great Britain

Community Care of the Elderly
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This paper shall identify and explain services available which support community care of the older person. Examples of informal care, voluntary, statutory and the independent sector shall be discussed in part A. Barriers to the delivery of good community care services shall be discussed in part B and also recommendations for improvements.
Sharkey (2000) suggests that community is a term used to describe a group of people in the same situation, such as older residents in a residential home. Community care is the care given outside of institutions which…